OUR NEXT MEETING

Saturday, July 11, 2015 - Indiana Freedom Trails will meet from 11 am to 1 pm at the Eugene and Marilyn Glick Indiana History Center in Indianapolis (450 W. Ohio St. - parking is off of New York St.). Chandler Lighty, Program Manager for Hoosier State Chronicles: Indiana's Historic Newspaper Program, will speak on how the Indiana State Library is providing free digitized historical and cultural resources to help with your local Underground Railroad research. The meeting will take place in the Multi-Purpose Room on the canal level and is free and open to the public.

Indiana Freedom Trails is a member of:

Resistance To Slavery...

The Underground Railroad is associated with a nineteenth-century movement
of enslaved African-Americans seeking freedom from bondage and the assistance
they received on their journey. The network that developed to aid the
freedom seekers brought together people of all races, ordinary and extraordinary
united in a common cause.

Established in 1998, Indiana Freedom Trails, Inc. is
seeking information about Underground Railroad History in Indiana. Oral
histories, family bibles, letters, diaries and other documents are important
to the story of Indiana's Underground Railroad heritage. We invite you
to share your stories with us, and participate in our efforts to identify,
to preserve, and to honor the places and individuals that were dedicated
to the humanity and equality for all people.

There are many ways you can become involved--please contact your regional
Indiana Freedom Trails representative.

Mission Statement: Indiana Freedom Trails is a cohesive,
diverse group working to locate, to identify, to verify, to protect, to
preserve, and to promote those Indiana sites and routes as part of the
National Underground Railroad network. We dedicate ourselves and our resources
to the research, education, interpretation, and reverence of our Underground
Railroad heritage for the benefit of generations to come.

About the Indiana Freedom Trails logo: In August 2000,
after a statewide contest, Indiana Freedom Trails chose this logo by Anitra
Larae Donahue to visually identify and symbolize the organization. She
explains: "The family in the foreground represents the countless individuals
who risked life and limb for a chance at freedom. Their faces capture
some of the emotions of escape, concern on the visage of the woman cradling
the child, hope in the gaze of the man as he looks towards their destination.
The structure is anonymous, its silhouette evoking the uncertainty found
in every lighted window--would those inside offer help or harm? But the
open doorway spills welcoming light, echoed in the lantern of the logo's
text. This path leads from the dark foliage to the shelter, overhung by
the 'Drinking Gourd' and the North Star's beacon of freedom."